Personals

Urinary Track Infection (UTI)
... that is something I contracted early yesterday morning. What an awful and painful experience to wake up in horrible pain, rolling and all curled up like ball trying to understand where the pain was coming from. I guess I cried like a baby, and yeas, I was cursing inside my head. I tried to put up a brave front with Alexander around since I did not want him to worry about me as I help him prepare for school. When Jan arrived home from his night shift, I just asked him to drive Alex early to school and askedfor him to come home quick. I called the hospital hotline for assistance and tried to describe my indescribable pain in between sighs and sobs. There and then, I was told to get myself to the nearest emergency ward hospital and say I have the UTI symptoms and has to be attended to immediately.

So, as soon as Jan came back from dropping Alex from school, I asked him to drive me to the hospital. As he tried to park the car, I tried to walk up the steps leading to the emergency area and met a nurse - I remember how I just dropped in her arms, managed to say what I wanted to say and I was whisked hastily to a room. The nurse attendant forced me to pee (that wasn't easy), took some blood samples and then asked for my personal security number as she led me to bed to lie down. She was gone for some 10 minutes when a lady doctor, a very sympathetic one, came in to see me to confirm that I did have UTI, and a severe one at that. She told me that I would be given a pain reliever by injection which will ease and relax the pain I've been undergoing before taking the antibiotics.When the lady doctor left, I somehow felt some relief knowing all that pain would go away. True to her word, the nurse attendant gave me my dose of medicine and I felt a whole lot better. Upon returning home, I went to rest and slept - I guess I was a bit drowsy of the drug they gave me as I am not much of a pill-popper.

Cars-nostalgia
Being a Friday and all, and sacred of all days to our family, our routine went on as usual. Our "mysskväll" is a must for our 8-year old. So, it's movie night at the Eriksson's. Having deprived Jan of his much needed sleep for the day, we sent him early to bed last night. Alex picked the Cars' movie to watch this time. We prepared popcorn, cookies and ice cream. I've set up the big screen and projector in the living room for that movie theater feeling.

It was some sort of nostalgia for him to watch the film last night, and towards the end of the film, as credits rolled with the background song of Brad Paisley's Find Yourself, Alexander sat mesmerized beside me with his eyes on tears.

"Why are you crying", I asked.

"It's a very beautiful song, Mommy", he replied in between his sobs as he munched his popcorn.

"I think so, too. But you don't have to cry", I said.

"It was so beautiful I feel that I was reborn", he said as tears flowed from his already sad eyes.


I looked at him in amazement and just hugged and kissed him. I realized how my little boy have really grown - physically, mentally and emotionally. Four years ago, when he saw this film, all its songs were just songs for him. Fun and upbeat songs. Today, he watched it with an altogether different perspective - with understanding, sensibility and sensitivity. My boy has truly grown up!

Below are his favourite songs, now with a different perspective.